A Bad Week for Boris

On Tuesday the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the government’s decision to prorogue parliament was unlawful. This meant that Prime Minister Boris Johnson, still full of red-pills from a long night at Trump Towers, would have to return to the United Kingdom and face a mutinous Parliament.

It’s a possibility that he’s more respected as Prime Minister in New York than in a parliament where he doesn’t command a majority. Particularly when you’ve made an enemy out of the speaker of the house, a fact he was reminded of by the abnormally long time John Bercow had him stand while he was being berated by MPs.

A probe has also been launched into Johnson’s relationship with a U.S. Businesswoman from when he was Mayor of London. This follows a report being made that they had a personal relationship around the time she received an entrepreneurial grant from the government.

While he, at the time a married man, did spend time at her flat a senior government source told The Guardian: “Everything was done with propriety and in the normal way.” She has also denied any allegations of misconduct, oddly saying that he was at her flat for: “Technology lessons.”

The Attorney General Geoffrey Cox, who’s legal advice to the government has now been brought into question by the Supreme Court ruling, said he respected the decision by the Supreme Court and then roared in contempt of what he described as a “dead” Parliament who was “too cowardly” to hold an election.

Geoffrey Cox in a fit of rage

Cox was then accused of being a fall-guy for the government’s Brexit plan and was urged to publish the advice he gave. The criticisms for Her Majesty’s government came in all shades of red, yellow and amber – but not blue anymore – and ranged in quality and substance.

The most notable comments made against Johnson were not directly related to the prorogation, or even Brexit, but were an appeal by a group of Labour MPs for the government to stop allowing inflammatory language to dominate the political discourse.

It referred specifically to the Prime Minister’s use of the term “surrender-Bill.”

The MPs cited some specific examples of times they have received death threats and compared the situation to the murder of Labour MP Joe Cox, who’s killer targeted her partly because of her support of the European Union.

Johnson, jet-lagged and tired from the prolonged stand in the no longer prorogued house, shocked both sides by describing the concerns as: “humbug.”

He then said, in what would be a career-altering comment for David Cameron but is another day at the office for anyone in team Johnson, that the best way to honour Joe Cox’s memory was to: “get Brexit done.”

Fighting appeals to stop inflammatory and provocative language with inflammatory and provocative language in a hung parliament is new grounds for British politics.

The SNP and Labour have since hinted at an alliance if we have an early election, which coupled with the resignation Ruth Davidson, could be disastrous for the Conservative party in Scotland, leading to the break-up of the Union.

The Liberal Democrats’ now have a Scottish unionist leader, further complicating the Tories’ issues in Scotland. You must wonder if, while Johnson delivered his line about Joe Cox to the sneers of an unruly parliament who refuse a general election and a politicised speaker who’s standing down, he wondered how it got this far?

Somewhere there’s an alternate Britain, about to vote in an election between shadow-Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer and former-International Development Secretary Rory Stewart.

They are complaining that politics used to be dramatic.

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